Deed idexes 1850-1859.

Oregon. Clackamas County.

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Clackamas County was named for the resident Clackamas Indinas and was one of the four original Oregon counties. Oregon City, the county seat, was the first incorporated city west of the Rockies, the first capital of the Territorial Government in 1848, and the site of the first legislative session. As capital of the Oregon Territory, Oregon City was also the site of the only federal and district court west of the Rockies in 1849 when the city of San Francisco was platted....

Kelly, James K. 1819-1903.

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Born on February 16, 1819 in Center County, Pennsylvania, James Kerr Kelly sailed to Oregon and settled in Oregon City in 1851. A lawyer, Kelly was very involved in Oregon politics, serving in the Council of the Oregon Territorial Legislature (1853-57), in Oregon's constitutional convention (1857), as a state senator (1860-64), U.S. Senator (1871-77), and chief justice of Oregon's Supreme Court (1878-80). He was a captain and lieutenant-colonel for Company C of the Oregon Volunteers in the Yakim...

Blanchet, A.M.A. Bishop of Nisqually.

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Magruder, Theophilus.

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Holbrook, Amory, 1820-1866

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Wait(e), Aaron E. 1813-1898.

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Burns, Hugh 1807-1870.

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Hugh Burns was an English Catholic immigrant to French Prairie, Oregon. From the description of Hugh Burns papers, 1845-1871. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 54359568 ...

Long, John E. 1803-1846.

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Curry, George L. 1820-1878.

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Hedges, Absalom 1818-1890.

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Lovejoy, Asa L. 1808-1882.

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Barclay, Forbes 1812-1873.

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Forbes Barclay (1812-1873) was a physician with the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, Wash. and later mayor of Oregon City, Or. From the description of Forbes Barclay family correspondence, 1840-1873. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 505248967 ...

Abernathy, George 1807-1877.

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Thornton, J. Quinn (Jessy Quinn), 1810-1888

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Born in Mason County, Virginia in 1810, Jessy Quinn Thornton was educated at the University of Virginia where he studied law. He later practiced law in Palmyra and Hannibal Missouri, and in Quincy, Illinois. In 1838 he married Nancy M. Logue at Hannibal. In 1846 he traveled overland to Oregon with his family. He became a judge of the Oregon Provisional Government's Supreme Court and was sent to Washington to lobby for the establishment of a territorial government. His works include Oregon and Ca...

Lane, Joseph, 1801-1881

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Joseph Lane was born in North Carolina December 14, 1801, and moved to Kentucky when he was three years old. At age fourteen Lane moved away from his family to Indiana. At the age of twenty-one Lane married Mary Hart Polly. The couple had eight children. From 1822 to 1846, Lane served in the Indiana State Legislature. After serving in the war against Mexico, where he became a major-general in 1847, he accepted the position as Territorial Governor of Oregon. Lane was sworn in as Governor on March...

McCraken, John, 1826-1915.

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Colonel John McCraken (1826-1915) came to California in 1849 and co-founded the Greenwich & California Mining & Trading Company. From the guide to the John McCracken papers, 1886-1945, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Colonel John McCraken (1826-1915) came to California in 1849 and co-founded the Greenwich & California Mining & Trading Company. The following year, he came to Oregon, where he became involved in the flour mi...

McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857

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Elwood Evans (1828-1898), born in Philadelphia, went to Oregon Territory in 1851 as deputy collector of customs at Nisqually. From 1859 to 1861, he served as mayor of the newly incorporated town of Olympia, Washington. In addition to his historical work, A History of the Pacific Northwest, he contributed many historical articles to local papers. From the guide to the Elwood Evans notebook, 1859-1882, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...